12 Top historical fiction books like The Promise by Susan Sallis

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The Promise

By: Susan Sallis

3.71

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Wartime memories evoke both pain and happiness in this heart-warming novel from multi-million copy …

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Promise by Susan Sallis , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Losing You

By: Susan Lewis

4.20

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The powerful new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Missing.Lauren Scott is bright, … read more

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2. Darkest Longings

By: Susan Lewis

4.31

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Claudine Rafferty is rich, reckless and beautiful. So when she throws herself into an arranged marr… read more

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3. The Love of My Life

By: Louise Douglas

3.88

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

'I miss him with every breath and heartbeat. He should have been my happy ending. Instead, he is th… read more

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4. Minding Frankie

By: Maeve Binchy

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Maeve Binchy is back with a tale of joy, heartbreak and hope, about a motherless girl collectively … read more

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5. Nights of Rain and Stars

By: Maeve Binchy

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

In a Greek taverna, high over the small village of Aghia Anna, four people meet for the first time:… read more

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6. Death Comes to Pemberley

By: None

4.27

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. The year is 1803, and Fitzwill… read more

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7. Light a Penny Candle

By: Maeve Binchy

4.24

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, shy and genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the bois… read more

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8. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

By: John Gray

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together bec… read more

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9. When You Disappeared

By: John Marrs

4.45

Format: 864 pages,

When Catherine wakes up alone one morning, she thinks her husband has gone for a run before work. B… read more

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10. Songbirds

By: Christy Lefteri

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, a stunning novel about the disappearance … read more

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"Now that I could hear this woman’s song—a melody that told a story I couldn’t understand—I hoped with all of my heart that it wasn’t too late."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

"As if she couldn’t quite allow herself to enjoy the pleasures of one world without being pulled into the other. Her home was always waiting for her."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

"You see, when you clump people together and don’t understand their personal stories, you can make up any bullshit and convince yourself it’s the truth."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

"Yes, I love thinking about beginnings. I don’t like endings, though I suppose I’m like most people in that. An ending can be staring you right in the face without you knowing it."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

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11. The Lions of Fifth Avenue

By: Fiona Davis

3.90

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

In nationally bestselling author Fiona Davis's latest historical novel, a series of book thefts roi… read more

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  • historical fiction
"Leave it to a librarian to point out the alliteration in my life’s tragedies."

-Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue

"History is made by people in power making decisions, and their notes and writings reveal the decision-making process."

-Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue

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12. Little Wing

By: Freya North

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Little Wing is the powerful story of two families over three generations. In the 1960s, a pregna… read more

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  • historical fiction
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13. Very Very Lucky

By: Amanda Prowse

4.37

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

A life-affirming story from million-copy bestselling author Amanda Prowse about having it all, losi… read more

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14. The Skylark's Secret

By: Fiona Valpy

4.31

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

Loch Ewe, 1940. When gamekeeper’s daughter Flora’s remote highland village finds itself the base fo… read more

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  • historical fiction
"Even though it's so painful, grief is something we have to go through sooner or later. There's no way round it, no way to avoid it. That something we all learned in the war. You go through it. But if…"

-Fiona Valpy, The Skylark's Secret

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15. Picking up the Pieces

By: Amanda Prowse

4.34

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

In this heart-warming story from million copy bestselling author Amanda Prowse, Nora has given up o… read more

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16. The Memory Box

By: Kathryn Hughes

4.49

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

A heartbreakingly beautiful novel, The Memory Box unlocks an unforgettable epic story of love and w… read more

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  • historical fiction
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17. The Room in the Attic

By: Louise Douglas

4.32

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

A child who does not know her name… In 1903 fishermen find a wrecked boat containing a woman, wh… read more

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  • historical fiction
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18. All Good Things

By: Amanda Prowse

3.88

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

In this captivating story from the bestselling author of Picking up the Pieces, Daisy has always en… read more

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19. This Place of Wonder

By: Barbara O'Neal

4.27

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

In the wake of a personal tragedy, four women face the past, their futures, and each other in a nov… read more

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20. The Secret of Villa Alba

By: Louise Douglas

4.26

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

1968, Sicily.  Just months after a terrible earthquake has destroyed the mountain town of Gibellina… read more

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  • historical fiction
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21. Her Mother's Daughter

By: Jackie Walsh

3.44

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

I took you, Becca. You are not my daughter. Becca Wall loves her family, so when her mother says th… read more

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22. An Ordinary Life

By: Amanda Prowse

4.44

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Girl in the Corner comes a tale of love, loss—and one last extra… read more

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  • historical fiction
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23. The Mistletoe Seller

By: Dilly Court

4.32

Format: 545 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s Christmas Eve. Flurries of snow fall on the cobbled streets of Whitechapel and an abandoned ba… read more

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  • historical fiction
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24. The Scarlet Dress

By: Louise Douglas

4.11

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

Alice Lang was wearing her favourite scarlet dress when she disappeared twenty-five years ago, and … read more

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25. The Elephant of Belfast

By: S. Kirk Walsh

3.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by true events, this vivid and moving story of a young woman zookeeper and the elephant sh… read more

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  • historical fiction
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26. Ten Little Words

By: Leah Mercer

4.09

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

I am always with you. I will always be here. This was the promise Ella’s mother betrayed thirty ye… read more

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27. In Distant Fields

By: Charlotte Bingham

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Her wonderful new story, sure to be another bestseller, is about love and heartbreak, but most impo… read more

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28. The Rose Arbor

By: Rhys Bowen

4.30

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

An investigation into a girl’s disappearance uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II in a ha… read more

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  • historical fiction
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29. The Promise

By: Susan Sallis

3.71

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Wartime memories evoke both pain and happiness in this heart-warming novel from multi-million copy … read more

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  • historical fiction
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30. Cara's Land

By: Elvi Rhodes

4.31

Format: 478 pages, Kindle Edition

Cara Dunning first came to the wild and remote Beckwith Farm in the Yorkshire Dales as a young land… read more

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31. The Library of Lost Love

By: Norie Clarke

4.41

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Joan thinks her story is over. But what if there is one more chapter...?'The warmest, most complete… read more

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Deborah Rodriguez

3.67

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Shelley Read

4.28

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David Nicholls

4.08

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4.17

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